(I have no affiliation with this company aside from being a happy customer the last few years)

Runpod also has an offering in this space but I think they’re shifting toward more managed-by-them rental services.

If you want someone to take you up on that offer you gotta specify a % differential from cloud list price. :)

[1] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228

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Here are some videos related to his work: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDU0iEj6f8duXzmgnlGX4...

Co-dfns was most recently discussed on Hacker News 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40928450

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On our [1] chatbots we use one long memories text field per chatbot <-> user relationship.

Each bot response cycle suggests a new memory to add as part of its prompt (along with the message etc)

Then we take that new memory and the existing memories text and feed it to a separate “memory archivist” LLM prompt cycle that’s tasked with adding this new memory and resummarizing the whole thing, yielding a replacement for the stored memories, with this new memory added.

Maybe overly simplistic but easy to manage and pretty inexpensive. The archiving part is async and fast. The LLM seems pretty good sussing out what’s important and what isn’t.

[1] https://Graydient.ai

But, bad or good, I think all you can really do is keep trying! Don't let a few rejections stymie your long term goals. Your family needs you to keep putting one foot in front of the other and applying to more and more places until you find that perfect role.

Maybe use this downtime to build yourself up: open source some stuff that defines you as a subject matter expert, or blog about some of your experiences, etc.

Wouldn't hurt to share your resume here too - lotta industry people lurking. :)

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/blob...

you can try blending the before and after with PIL but it will probably look even more disturbing

    strength = 0.5
    horrific_image = Image.blend(image_with_normal_skin_and_teeth, 
    kinda_awful_gfpgan_image, strength)

Worth a shot!

But personally I’ve been working at higher levels of the stack the last few years, where these kinds of decisions seem less important.

And on another level, it seems like coders in general aren’t that interested in vector oriented languages and techniques which makes their study somewhat isolating.